Cameras, heating, lights, shades, locks, weather and the family calendar on one screen. And it's the only app in Apple Home that also handles standalone RTSP cameras.
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Most IP cameras never make it into Apple Home. Dashboard takes them directly — you enter the stream address, or let the app find it.
Apple Home has no device type for solar panels, so most inverters are bridged in as a light sensor — where they end up buried in the status bar. Here they become a tile with a number.
No switching between apps, no digging through lists. You drag the tiles where you want them and resize them by the corner handle — separately for the iPad on the wall and for the iPhone. Accessories come from your Apple Home, including the ones connected through Matter bridges such as KNX/1Home; groups you created in the Home app show up as a single tile.
Bulbs, sockets, fans, TVs, air purifiers, humidifiers, valves and irrigation — everything that can be switched on and off. Dimmable lights also get brightness, colour and white colour temperature.
Thermostats and radiator valves with a target temperature in half-degree steps, and standalone thermometers in °C or °F.
Shades, blinds and powered windows — position from 0 to 100% in one-percent steps, plus slat tilt on blinds.
Door locks, sliding and swing gates, and garage doors. You pick your own icon for each one, and it carries over to the floor plan.
Windows, doors, gates and contact sensors as a single item with an open / all closed state. An alarm with home, away, night and off modes — for any HomeKit security system.
Humidity, water leaks, smoke, CO, light level, motion and occupancy. Air quality with the rating in words plus measured CO₂ in ppm, particulates and volatile compounds.
HomeKit cameras with a live stream, listening and talk-back — and standalone RTSP cameras outside HomeKit in H.264 and H.265, which the app finds on the network by itself.
Scenes from the Home app with a single tap. The active scene stays highlighted for as long as it matches the real state of the accessories.
Weather with a six-day forecast, a shared family calendar, countdowns to the days that matter, and an Apple Music player.
You upload a render of your home and place the accessories on it. After that you just tap the light in the room you're standing in.
No architect and no scanner. An image is all it takes — and four steps.
Have a floor plan from the builder or a sketch on paper? Upload it to ChatGPT and ask it to turn it into a 3D floor plan. Landscape works best, at least 2000 × 1200 px.
In the settings, open 3D floor plan and choose an image from Photos or Files. You can add up to five floors and give each one a name.
On the right side of the editor (below the plan on iPhone) you pick an accessory and tap the plan where it actually is. Tap the icon to choose how it looks.
On the dashboard you then tap the light in the room you're standing in. Thermostats show the temperature, open windows and doors glow orange.
This is what sets it apart from the Home app: an iPad on the wall has different needs than a phone in your hand.
A panel on the wall sees more of your home than any other app — your cameras, when you come home, whether anything is open. That's why there are no excuses here and no “anonymized statistics”.
There is nothing to register for and nothing to sign in to. The app has no server anything could be sent to.
No behaviour tracking, no advertising identifiers. There is not a single third-party library in the app.
The video goes straight from the camera to the iPad over your own network. It doesn't pass through anyone else, not even us.
They stay on the device. They're backed up to your own iCloud, or to a file you pass along yourself.
Camera credentials are stored by the device's system keychain, not by the app.
You type in the city for the weather yourself. The app has no access to the device's location and never asks for it.
A single connection goes out: the weather forecast. The city you type in is sent to look up its coordinates, and those are used to download the forecast — with no account and no identifiers. The app sends nothing else.
You'll find the full wording in the privacy policy further down this page.
| Apple's Home app | Dashboard | Other panels | |
|---|---|---|---|
| HomeKit accessories | yes | yes | yes |
| Standalone RTSP cameras | no | yes | no |
| Camera discovery on the network (ONVIF) | no | yes | no |
| 3D floor plan from an image | no | yes | sometimes, with LiDAR |
| Sleep and wake on motion | no | yes | no |
| Languages | many | 14 | 1–5 |
Data on competing apps verified as of August 2026.
The free version is not a trial — it will keep running on the wall indefinitely. The subscription can be cancelled at any time in your Apple Account settings.
An iPad or iPhone with iOS 17 or later. Landscape on iPad, portrait or landscape on iPhone.
An Apple Home home is needed to control accessories. RTSP cameras work without one.
No account and no data collection. Settings stay on the device and are backed up to your own iCloud.
Yes. You enter the RTSP stream address, or let the app scan the network — for ONVIF cameras it works out the address on its own. Cameras streaming H.264 over RTSP are supported.
To control accessories in your home, yes — HomeKit itself requires one as a home hub. Standalone RTSP cameras work without it.
No. Apple doesn't make the HomePod's sensors available to any app other than Home. To measure temperature you need a separate HomeKit or Matter thermometer.
It isn't. It has limits on how many accessories you can add, but it runs with no time limit.
If you run into any problems or have an idea that would make the app better, write to me at jan@jansindelar.com. The developer answers, not first-line support.
To make it quicker, please include your iPad or iPhone model, your system version, and for cameras their brand and model.
The app does not collect, store or send any personal data anywhere. All settings remain on your device; the optional configuration backup (including floor plan and background images) is saved only to your private iCloud, which only your Apple Account can access — the developer has no access to it.
Permissions for HomeKit, calendars, photos, the camera and the microphone are used solely to display and control your home directly on the device; person detection by the front camera (waking the display) runs only locally and no image is stored or sent anywhere.
The weather forecast is downloaded anonymously from the Open-Meteo service — only the name of the selected location and the coordinates the service returns for it are sent. The app has no access to the device's location and never asks for it.
Purchases and subscriptions are processed by Apple; the app has no user accounts and contains no analytics or advertising.
Last updated: August 1, 2026
The app and the Premium subscription are governed by the standard Apple license agreement (EULA): Apple Standard EULA.
The Premium subscription is annual and renews automatically. It can be cancelled at any time in your Apple Account settings.
